Through these tools, you will be able to growth hack your way to scaling your professional network and landing a job in the Netherlands.

1. Powerful growth hacking
tools to land a job in the
Netherlands
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Share one tool / tip from
today's presentation.

3. Goals of this workshop:
1) Accelerate & scale your networking
2) Get a job offer
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4. Hi, I'm Kristian Voldrich. This is my story of
working in the Netherlands.
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Some corporate partners

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and academic / government partners

8. What is growth hacking?
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9. Growth Hacking is data-driven
business growth based on rapid
experimentation. A mixture of
Behavioural Psychology, Creative
Marketing, Coding/Automation,
and Data/Testing.
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10. Applying growth hacking to finding work.
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TRADITIONAL DISRUPTIVE
A passive and common inbound
waiting-to-be-found methodology,
through which job seekers focus
on optimising their portfolio, be
that a CV or LinkedIn, and apply
directly through careers pages.
An active and
creative outbound methodology
focused on avoiding what
everyone else does. No career
fairs, no company visits allowed.

11. On to some growth hacking tactics.
Here are 5 steps on getting your foot
in the door with an HR manager.
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12. Step #1: Find the right contact person
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- Who is the final decision maker?
- Always use LinkedIn (2nd highest penetration after USA)

13. Step #2: Find the right contact details
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- Never ever send emails to generic addresses (e.g. info@, hello@)
- Find a direct email of the person you're looking to contact using
hunter.io

14. Step #3: Create an exceptional email
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1) Structure & wording is everything
2) Be contextually relevant
3) Know your unique selling point
4) Follow-up when contact doesn't reply
5) End with a non-polar question

15. Example with
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EMAIL #1

16. Example with
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EMAIL #2

17. Step #4: Use email automation tools
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- Create customizable templates
- Use tokens (e.g. [first name]) in templates
- Create sequences to trigger automatic follow-ups
- Track email opens & clicks
- CRM tools such as Hubspot (free) can do this.

18. Step #5: Send a custom LinkedIn invitation
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- Create a message that captures attention & triggers action
EXAMPLE
Hi John,
Hope you're doing well - I just sent you an email in regards to your new graduate
program at Booking.com. The email included some questions I had about the learning
goals of this program.
Did you receive it well?
Thanks,
Kristian

19. Thank you. Questions?
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21. Workshop
TASK: Select any company with min. 50 employees. Your goal is to
successfully schedule a coffee with the HR / Talent Acquisition manager of
that company.
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